Noon Energy brings Mars tech down to Earth with carbon-oxygen battery system

The starry-eyed founder story usually goes something like this: Start an earthbound company, make lots of money, launch a rocket company to go to Mars.
If that’s the stereotypical narrative, then Chris Graves has it all backward.
Graves started with the Red Planet, helping to develop a key instrument for NASA’s Perseverance rover that’s currently roaming the Jezero crater. That instrument inspired him to invent a novel battery technology that today forms the foundation of his startup, Noon Energy.
On Mars, the MOXIE instrument is intended to test the viability of making rocket-ready oxygen on

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